There doesn't seem to be that much difference to me based on the fact that it has now been reported that they have now found DNA and we can now talk about this. It has nothing to do with politics and it is a very sad thing that this has happened. What is needed is a doctor who can evaluate why he did this and give him treatmemt. Attitudes are not based on transatlantic differences. This should be very easy to prove. It is mostly a joke about how different people are.

You embody everything about the traditional Europe that is disgusting. A vague yet overwhelming sense of arrogance and entitlement that dare not be challenged, yest ye degrade everyone around you with different values and play the victim.

They found his DNA on the maid. So maybe you can just go back home and save some face. And take the grand, theatrical, overly silly and arrogant (how French) victim-defense home.

Really, isn't it time for the French to get rid of this tribunal nonsense and the Napoleonic code and all that, and adopt a good old-fashioned Anglo-American legal system, with incorruptible police, non-political prosecutors, and politically neutral judges and courts?

A system in which, like the American, even the poorest are protected by LAW, and have their RIGHTS respected, where even a poor woman like Juanita Broadrrick can accuse the President Of The United States of rape and get a thorough investigation of the charge in the press at least, even if the statute of limitations had run out?

Maybe this prosecution in NYC will wake the whole French nation up--they have been tolerating rape and sexual assault against women and minorities for centuries.

It is about time they became civilized, like the Americans and the British.

On the other hand, though he was not much of a Socialist, DSK seems to have had different ideas about the IMF than, say, the Americans.

And there was an important meeting with Merkel coming up.

Guilt or innocence in regard to the charge, it is very strange that he was denied bail until he resigned.

He was no flight risk at all, as is now clear. Nor was he rushing out of the country.

In fact, though the cell phone was used as an indication of haste, the actual facts suggest he was not concealing his whereabouts, was not fleeing the country, and apparently had no idea whatever that he was the subject of a criminal accusation and sought by the police.

I am surprised at the number of commentors who compare this situation with politicians and officials having consensual affairs or hiring call girls. This isn't a moral debate, but a legal question. DSK is accused not of cheating on his wife, who evidently doesn't care, but forcing someone to perform a sexual act. That's called rape and its against the law in any civilized society.

and all those of you who recommended their BS. So let me get this straight in my mind. Are you suggesting that because someone is at the top of a 'very important' organisation that they should be exempt from answering the charge of attempted rape?

SO the NYPD become aware of an attack but should turn a blind eye because the man is top dog at the IMF?

This type of thinking allowed peadophile priests escaped having to answer for their crime and continue destroying lives.

please don't put all the French in the same basket, so far, he wasn't elected, but a virtual candidate, among several socialist candidates, and a poll saying that he would win doesn't represent reality, but a response to a pre-digest question !

now there are still about 80% of french that weren't/aren't Strausskahnians !